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Community remembers beloved LW coach
Watson guided Kang
softball team to state
tournament
BY TIM WATANABE

BY BILL CHRISTIANSON

twatanabe@bothell-reporter.com

T

he Lake Washington High
School and local softball
communities suffered a
great loss Aug. 17 when Mike
Watson, who coached the Kangs
to a Class 3A state tournament
berth last spring, died after suffering a heart attack while driving.
According to the “Team Kellie”
Facebook page, Watson was taken
to Swedish Hospital in Edmonds,
where he underwent a 24-hour
cooling treatment to help with
brain trauma from the accident. In
the early morning hours, Watson
suffered a second heart attack and
could not be revived. The Facebook page was set up in support of
Watson’s wife Kellie, as she battles
ovarian cancer.
The 48-year-old Watson, who
had coached fastpitch softball for
more than 15 years, took over the
head coaching position at Lake
Washington after one of his closest
friends, Troy Hennum, was placed
on administrative leave just after
the season started.
Hennum’s longtime goal was to
turn the Kangs’ fastpitch program
around and into a yearly contender in the tough Kingco conference.
He had no doubts about who his
assistant would be when he was

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Former Kangs softball head coach Mike Watson died of a heart attack Aug. 17. Watson guided the Lake Washington team to its
second state softball tournament appearance since 2000 last spring. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
hired on as head coach in 2011.
“Mike had extremely strong
knowledge of the game, but with
that I knew he would gain the
respect of the players and the
community,” Hennum said.
“Mike was a coach who worked
hard at the sport 12 months a year,
not just three. When Mike took
over the Kangs, I knew it was go-

ing to be fine.”
With Watson at the helm,
Kangs’ athletic director George
Crowder marveled at Watson’s
ability to connect with the girls on
the team.
“He was well-liked, always
positive with the girls, carried
himself well, and knew the game
of softball well,” Crowder recalled,

who was the head fastpitch coach
at Eastlake High in Sammamish
for 16 years.
“I had a tremendous amount
of respect for him, I loved his demeanor in the dugout. Kids really
cared for him.”

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Woman pleads ‘absolutely not guilty’ in fatal crash on Juanita Drive
Judge allows defendant to be shielded from media during hearing
BY MATT PHELPS AND RAECHEL DAWSON
Kirkland Reporter

Kirkland resident Kelly Ann Hudson,
42, pleaded not guilty to charges of vehicular homicide and three counts of vehicular
assault Aug. 23 in King County Superior
Court. The charges stem from a car wreck
that killed an 81-year-old Kirkland woman
and injured three on Juanita Drive.
Hudson, who was dressed in an orange
jumpsuit with blonde hair, told the judge
that she was “absolutely not guilty.”
“I think there was a tick of arrogance in
that statement,” said Tom Kamm, nephew
of Joyce Parsons who was killed in the
wreck. “This is frustrating because no one

wins in this. This type of thing is out of
control in our society... We need to keep
educating people on this and I know all of
the families feel this way.”
Hudson has been in King County Jail on
a $500,000 bond since her arrest.
In a rare ruling, Judge Ronald Kessle
allowed her lawyer, Scott E. Wonder, to
shield her from the media and others in
court. Wonder held a thin white sheet of
Styrofoam between his client’s upper torso
and face and those in attendance for her
arraignment. Hudson reportedly does not
want her children to see her in the papers
or on television.
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This photo was taken of the victims just hours before the crash on
Juanita Drive on Aug. 7. Pictured from left, Daniel J. Grieshaber, Jenny
Grieshaber, Joyce Parsons and Arthur Kamm. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

The Lake Washington
School District avoided another round of major state
cuts to its 2012-13 budget
while creating a stable
spending plan that continues a crucial cushion for
possible future shortfalls.
The LWSD board of
directors unanimously
approved a $238.8 million general spending plan
and $151.1 million for the
capital fund, which includes
voter-approved construction and technology
projects.
The other district expenditures include $44 million
for debt service, $4.6
million for the associated
student body fund and $1.3
million for the transportation vehicle fund, bringing
the LWSD’s total expenses
for the next fiscal year to
$440 million.
The general fund, which
pays for the majority of
expenses, has a beginning
balance of $19.8 million
with an expected $237.2
million in revenues, giving
the district $257 million in
spending power, according to Barbara Posthumus,
business services coordinator for the district.
LWSD is budgeting for
$238.8 million in general
fund expenditures, leaving
$18.2 million left to transfer
to the 2013-14 budget. The
$18.2 million in general
fund reserves more than
meets the board’s 5 percent
balance requirement.
“We want to make sure
we are reserving funds in
case there are more state
cuts,” Posthumus said.
“There have been state cuts
over the last two years so
we have been conservative in how we spend our
money.”
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Hudson was granted a postponement of her bail
hearing and will remain in jail until her next court date
on Sept. 10.
Hudson is suspected of crossing the center line on
Juanita Drive and killing Parsons, 81, of Kirkland, and
injuring three others on the night of Aug. 7. Arthur
Kamm, Daniel J. Grieshaber and Jenny Grieshaber, who
were in the Toyota Pruis with Parsons, were returning
home from an Argosy Cruise when they were hit headon by Hudson’s blue minivan. Kamm and Jenny Grieshaber, 69, were transported to Harborview in critical
condition after the accident. Daniel J. Grieshaber, 72,
was transported to Evergreen with minor injuries.
The Kamm family is now attempting to deal with Arthur’s care. “He is 85 and change so this is pretty severe
stuff,” said Tom Kamm about his father. “He has had
two surgeries on his hip and pelvis and I don’t know
how his ribs are.”
Hudson was also suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs, according to
charging documents, but results of blood alcohol tests
have not been released.
Police said that Hudson allegedly told them she had
taken medication with
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Todd Bekins, a 44-yearold man from Vancouver,
Wash., died in a one-car accident Friday afternoon on
I-405 at exit 18 in Kirkland.
Washington State Patrol
trooper Julie Judson said
Bekins was traveling northbound in the exit lane when
witnesses saw his Chevy
Blazer “suddenly drive off
the roadway and hit the
pole of the exit sign.”
The Blazer caught fire
and was “completely engulfed in flames” soon after.
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the man out and performed
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driver was not wearing a
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Bekins died from internal
injuries.
The collision occurred
around 2:20 p.m. and traffic stayed backed up into
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Cowan makes bid for Congress in 5th District
Rich
Cowan,
candidate
for Congress
in the 5th
District,
on the set
of a film
production.

By Raechel Dawson
rdawson@kirklandreporter.com

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area from Canada to Idaho
and Oregon.
“When people are working, it solves a lot of other
problems,” he said.
The former Kirkland
resident and Juanita High

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ponent is a “career politician,” saying his experience
in a grassroots company
could give him an advantage.
The entrepreneur started
a film production company

in 1990 called North by
Northwest Productions.
Now, his business employs
40 full-time workers and
has produced 45 feature
length films. His company
expanded to five other
divisions that produce TV
commercials, industrial
videos, documentaries and
websites.
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passion for small businesses,” Cowan said. His
biggest issue will be to focus
on family wage jobs.
Cowan said he will bring
a new perspective to the 5th
District, which covers an

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s a film producer
and director Rich
Cowan has always
been behind the camera. As
a candidate for U.S. Congress from Washington’s 5th
District, he hopes to take
center stage.
“I have a background and

School graduate will face
8-year-incumbent Republican Cathy McMorris
Rodgers in the November
general election. McMorris
Rodgers is the fifth-highestranking Republican in the
House of Representatives
and is running for her fifth
term as well. This will be
Cowan’s first time running.
Cowan said that his op-

hanges are common in any
job and in any business.
Changes have been a big part
of journalism during the past decade
as shrinking budgets mean less staff.
But positive changes are in store for
the staffs of the Kirkland, Redmond
and Bothell/Kenmore Reporter
staffs.
One of the biggest changes is the
naming of Carrie Rodriguez as the
regional editor for the Kirkland
and Bothell/Kenmore Reporter
newspapers. Rodriguez has been the
editor of the Kirkland Reporter for
four years and has won numerous
awards for her work as editor and as
a reporter for the paper.
Rodriguez began her career with
Sound Publishing in 2006 as a news
clerk after graduating from the
University of Washington with a
bachelor’s degree in communications
and a second degree in English. She
quickly moved on several months
later to take a reporting position
with the Bellevue Reporter, where
she covered city news, schools, arts,
business for several years.
She is currently on maternity leave
and looks forward to assuming her
new role as regional editor when she

returns on Oct. 1.
Matt Phelps, currently the interim
editor of the Kirkland Reporter
newspaper, has been named assistant
editor of the Bothell/Kenmore
Reporter, a sister paper covering the
northshore area.
Phelps began his career with
Sound Publishing as the sports editor for the Whidbey News-Times
in 2000 after graduating from the
University of Washington. He spent
eight years as sports editor with the
Mercer Island Reporter, where he
won numerous writing and design
awards from the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association and the
Society of Professional Journalists.
He joined the Kirkland Reporter
staff in 2009.
Phelps succeeds Andy Nystrom,
who has been named editor of the
Redmond Reporter newspaper.
Joining the Kirkland Reporter staff
is reporter Raechel Dawson, a 2012
graduate of the University of Washington. Dawson joined the Kirkland Reporter staff as a temporary
reporter at the beginning of August
and has accepted a full-time position
with the paper.
Dawson covered the Washington

“I am obviously angry and upset but I am entitled to feel that way. It has
rocked my boat,” said Tom Kamm, about the car wreck that took the life of his aunt.

State Legislature as an intern with
WNPA’s Olympia Bureau, and her
work has appeared in numerous
newspapers and online news sites
around the Puget Sound region.
While at UW she served as secretary
of the university’s SPJ chapter, and
was a member of Phi Sigma Theta
National Honor Society.
Dawson will work with Phelps and
Kirkland Reporter editor Carrie Rodriguez in the Reporter newspapers’
Totem Lake office.

The appointments were announced by Josh O’Connor, Sound
Publishing’s vice president for East
Sound operations, with the promotions taking effect Sept. 4.
It is nice to be able to announce
advancement within our ranks and
we believe it shows how strong the
Reporter Newspapers have become
over the years. We believe that these
moves will not only strengthen the
newsroom but also the news content
that we bring to our readers.

Support inclusion
of LGBT rights
I was very honored to have been
a sponsor at a Garden Party for
Marriage Equality held over in Seattle last weekend. It was co-hosted
by the owners of They Lobby Bar
and was an extremely well-attended
event that raised over $20,000. We
were also lucky enough to have
Senator Ed Murray as one of the
guest speakers, who gave a great
speech detailing the efforts that
have been made so far.
I have been very invested in
this fight for a long time now, but
it was actually being surrounded
by a group of like-minded people
that really brought the importance
of this to mind. This really is a
civil rights movement for our time,
and should not be even remotely
thought of as anything else.
There are a great deal of rights
and privileges that go along with
marriage that gay people should be
just as entitled to as straight people,
but there is a lot more at stake than
that. By saying that gay people are
not entitled to getting married we
would be sending a very strong and
powerful message to people that
homosexuality it not seen as a normal thing and that homosexuals are
not a valid part of the community.
If you would like to stop and
consider that for a moment it will
be detrimental on a large number
of grounds and most importantly
for the children of gays and lesbians

but also children who identify as
being gay themselves. The news has
been full of religious leaders coming out against the gay community
and if we allow that to continue we
are not allowing our gay children to
feel valued.
I urge everyone that supports
the full inclusion of LGBT rights to
take the time to talk to people that
are either against R-74 or are on
the fence. You can volunteer with
the Washington United for Marriage group – they are carrying out
phone banking events all the time
on our side of the water now.
Thanks, on behalf of the whole
LGBT community.

Shaun Kelly, Kirkland

Discovery Pass is a
real bargain at $30
The Aug. 24 edition of the
Reporter featured an editorial on
funding of Washington State Parks.
The writer suggested that funds for
maintaining the statewide system
of more than 100 parks could be
allocated from already raised tax
revenue.
As a longtime resident my family has enjoyed many of the parks
throughout the state. We purchased
an annual Discovery Pass this year
and have used it many times. This
is a convenient way to help support
the park system and eliminate
hassle at the pay box. The $30
charge for the annual day-use pass
has been a genuine value as we have
used it many times over the three-

times daily rate of ten dollars.
I agree the state should continue
to support our lovely parks, not
eliminate funding for them in 2013
as is currently planned. Use of the
Discovery Pass is one way to help
offset the cost of operating these vital open spaces but it’s not enough.
Please contact your state representatives and let them know you
expect the park system to endure
these hard times for future generations to discover and enjoy.

Ira Worden, Kirkland

Skullduggery afoot
to get Potala built
It seems there is no end to the
city planners’ devious efforts to get
the Potala project built despite 18
months of citizen objection, two
moratoriums by the city council,
legal objections and countless
meetings.
This building is to be four stories
high with two subterranean parking garages housing 316 more cars
to hit our Lake St. and side streets.
These condos are expected to number 143 units with 500 square feet
of living space.
Potala’s original plan called for
over 180 units which was initially
allowed by city planners without an
Environment impact Statement.
After loud objections, the city backtracked and required the EIS.
Now the builder, Mr. Dargey,
has requested and the city acceded
to his request to adjust the EIS
to “meet his budget.” Really? An

abridged EIS? Anything less than a
full and complete EIS will have no
integrity or believability.
As to the EIS itself, a comprehensive and objective study to determine the feasibility of a project,
an outside agency is selected to
conduct the EIS. In discussions
with the city they gave assurances
that the study would, in fact, be
unbiased.
What agency was selected?
Inova was selected. This agency is
headed by Joseph Tovar, former
director of planning for the city of
Kirkland and perhaps some former
city employees as well.
Since other agencies were available, why this one? At a city meeting a week ago, a few knowledgeable people spoke to many errors
in the way Inova computed the
average units per acre leading to a
better justification for Mr. Dargey’s
project.
Perhaps lastly and most importantly the city has seen fit to allow
only two outcomes: build it with
143 units or reject the whole project. So...modifications and compromise are not possible. Really? Why?
The final question is this: Who
has given the city the authority to
behave in such a dictatorial manner? Some 800 citizens signed up
as opposed to this project. These
people live here, pay taxes here and
vote here and Mr. Dargey doesn’t.
The City Council needs to step up
and put an end to the duplicity and
arrogance of this city’s planners.

Malicious mischief and theft: 8:30
p.m., 11615 N.E. 102nd Place. A 54-year-old
man and a 15-year-old boy were taken
into custody after the older man broke a
window of EE Savings Bond and stole a safe
containing $1,500. The police reports said
the man is bipolar and had not been taking
medication. Information on the teenager’s
involvement is unknown.

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Illegal drugs: 5:08 p.m., 13500 Block
100th Avenue N.E. A 40-year-old suspect
was arrested after a 33-year-old man
reported possession of marijuana.
Warrant: 10:50 a.m., 12601 N.E. 124th
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Webster gives back to the game he loves
Thirty years after
his LLWS triumph,
he now teaches
the game

For the kids
Cody Webster and his Kirkland
National teammates started
the nonprofit Pat Downs
Foundation, named after their
1982 head coach who died in
1997. The foundation raises
money for young baseball
players who can’t afford the
costs to play. Info: www.
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By Andy Nystrom
anystrom@bothell-reporter.com

T

hirty years later,
Cody Webster is still
tuned in to the Little
League World Series.
At age 12, he dominated
his opponents while pitching Kirkland National Little
League to a 5-0 championship win over Taiwan
in Williamsport, Pa. He
blasted a 280-foot home
run during that game and
helped knock the Taiwanese
off their five-straight-titles
perch.
On a recent afternoon,
sitting in a room at the
Northshore Sports Complex in Woodinville, the
42-year-old Kirkland resident and Bothell American
Legion baseball coach
checked out the TV screen
while players from Curacao and Japan played on
the same field he did three
decades ago.
“It’s fun to watch this
stuff. These kids seem like
they’re bigger, stronger,

Cody Webster stands in one of the batting cages at the Northshore
Sports Complex in Woodinville. ANDY NYSTROM, Kirkland Reporter
faster nowadays — they’re
so polished,” he said. “I’m
pretty sure even if I didn’t
experience what I experienced, I’d be watching it
because it’s a good show.”
Webster was clearly entertained: “Look at how big
that kid is — Wow,” he said
at one point. “Look how he
wears that hat,” he chimed
in later.
Following his Little
League days, Webster attended Juanita High School,
where his baseball and football teams won state titles.
During that time frame,
he started thinking about
coaching baseball, which is
what he’s done on the Bothell baseball scene for the
last six years. He currently
coaches the local American

Legion U-19 squad, which
mainly features players
from Bothell High, along
with one from Inglemoor
High and another from
Cedar Park Christian.
Webster has coached
most of the players since
they were 11, including his
nephew, Kellen, who will
be a junior at Bothell High
this year.
While his teams have
experienced up-and-down
years, he often plays them
against older teams to prepare them for high-school
ball.
When Webster was about
16 or 17 — the same age
range as his players now
— he started developing a
coach’s mindset.
“I started getting inter-

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good hands with Cody
smoothly guiding the
teenager to a higher level,
as well.
Near his desk at the
sports complex hangs a
large, framed picture of the
1982 Kirkland National
team. Webster smiled when
he looked at those boys
of summer and discussed
what that time meant to
him.
“The thing that I take
from the Little League
experience is those guys —
a lot of them I’m still good
friends with.
There’s just a special bond
there,” said Webster, noting
that the supportive coaches
and players’ families were
also crucial parts of Kirkland’s success.
Each time Kirkland
won, the boys got to play
another day. Everyone was
still together when the dust
on the baseball diamond
cleared. Victory was theirs,
right up until the last day of
the season.
“It was great, we won the
World Series,” Webster said.
“But it kind of sucked that
the summer was over because it was so much fun.”

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camps, or helping players hone their skills at the
Northshore Sports Complex, Webster knows that
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and how they did stuff and
why they did stuff. Kind of
looked at the game in that
different way,” Webster said.
“Obviously when I was
12, I didn’t think that way
— I probably thought I was
going to play until I was 90.”

kids, works individually
with each player to have
them playing at a top
level and, most importantly,
doesn’t put a lot of pressure
on them, he said. Pressure
was in abundance during
Webster’s baseball days, and
he wants to stay far away
from that, he added.
“You’ve got to play every
day, you’ve got to put a lot
of time and effort into it
to be good. That’s what we
did, that’s how we won the
World Series, that’s what I
was taught,” Webster said.
“We practiced eight, nine
hours a day leading up to
the tournament.
“Whatever your ceiling
is, you’ll never reach it unless you work your butt off.”
Todd Webster, one of
Cody’s three older brothers and Kellen’s dad, feels
that Cody’s experience as a
successful player translates
well into the coaching role.
He can relate to his players,
both on a personal level and
skills-wise, Todd said.
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set and he wants the kids
to achieve that,” said Todd,
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Sept. 1.
Find out more about programs and meet members
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